Cross‐sectional and longitudinal comparisons of health‐related quality of life between patients with prostate carcinoma and matched controls

Abstract

Prostate carcinoma treatment led to significant 5-year declines in urinary and sexual function that far exceeded age-related changes in controls. Patients with cancer had significantly worse function and more bother than controls for these disease-specific domains of HRQOL. Bowel function and general HRQOL were not affected by cancer status.